Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:21:04 AM@5Cats: by no means am I saying this is Christians piggybacking on the movie or the studio or the Superman myth! Just the opposite! This post wasn't me bashing Christians. When I do that, you'll know it. I promise.

Monday, June 17, 2013 9:12:28 PM@SmagBoy1: I got your back on this one! It IS AMAZING that "Christians" want to piggy-back on the whole "Superman" mythos. They should NEVER do this! It's idolatry ffs! Stupid-arse pseudo-Christians...

Monday, June 17, 2013 2:54:36 PM@dm2754 and @cheeseb: I only post this because I was surprised that it's being actively marketed to churches, to pastors, with actual printed and electronic material to be used in preaching the movie. That's just amazing to me, and I'm pretty cynical! It's not that the protagonist-as-Christ idea is new to me. At all. It's the fact that it's actually being used by the studio as a marketing tool that surprises and amuses me.

Monday, June 17, 2013 11:15:09 AMThe phenomenon is not unlike looking through a two way mirror. The argument between two observers, on opposite sides, would go like this: "It's a reflection. You can't see through it." "There's no reflection. You can see right through it."

Such it is with the WB/church group angle vs. the literate, free-thinking rest of the world: "It's the story of Christ. See? Christ is the answer!" "It's just another story basis where Christ came from. We created that story, so we are the answer!"

I'm merely repeating the references to Joseph Campbell and the Hero with 1000 Faces. The religious faction seems to pick one of those 1000 faces and say "The one I picked is the right one, and the other 999 are false."

Why can't this Superman/Man of Steel ethos just be a fun story? Wy can't the story of Jesus simply be a story about some pretty good ideas on how to live on this planet with each other?

Monday, June 17, 2013 9:43:49 AMThis again? Read the hero with 1000 faces. It will explain how just about all stories of the same in every hero is pretty much a carbon copy. Just about every hero has unusual birth circumstance and/or exceptional childhood. ex: Jesus, Darth Vader, Harry potter, superman. The manifestation of unworldly extraordinary powers. ex: Jesus, Darth Vader, Harry potter, superman. Betrayed by a trusted companion. ex: Jesus, Darth Vader, Harry potter, superman. Arise from the dead. ex: Jesus, Darth Vader, Harry potter, superman. And it goes on and on